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NUMBER 205
67TH YEAR
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1957 '
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6th Fleet Moves to Mid-East
Racketeering
In Labor Hit
HOPE HELD IN UN FOR
SUEZ OPERATION SHIFT
Subs Off
Florida
Financial Aid or
Rent-Free House
Needed by Nursery
Financial difficulties in the
operation of the Gainesville Day
Nursery have reached the emer-
SAUDI
ARABIA
—Hope was held in some quar-
ters at the U. N. today that
Egypt’s plan for running the
Suez canal might still be subject
At the
limit for
Mrs. Jack Simpson, nursery
president, reported that the
provided for more.
The memorandum also said
any dispute over canal operation
regulations would be referred
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of Jordan as vital to U. S. in-
terests and world peace.”
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authority and the third by mu-
tual agreement or by the head
of the world court if there is no
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n display of force today to back
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neighbors against carving up
that crisis-ridden Middle Eastern
state.
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Farm News —
Markets...............
BIRD TALK
RILES WIFE
MIAMI, Fla. (P)—Marital
bliss literally flew out the
HEAR STORY. DENOUNCED — Mrs. Kathleen
Weeks, left, an admitted prostitute, and Mrs. Mary
Childress, who identified herself as a housewife, sit
in the hearing room in Washington, D. C., as they
hear Deputy Sheriff George Minielly of Portland,
Ore., denounce their story as a “hoax”. The women
testified they signed a “false” affidavit reflecting on
a key senate rackets investigation witness under
threats from Minielly. (AP Wirephoto)
Those Were the
Good Old Days
ENNIS, Tex. (P)—The current
floods reminded Bert McKay,
who has lived here 71 years, of
a high old time in 1908.
A wooden saloon floated down
the flooding Trinity river from
Dallas and broke up against a
railroad bridge, setting kegs and
bottles of whisky afloat. The
Trinity flows 15 miles east of
Ennis.
As for the general picture,
Mitchell said:
“We are trying to help the
American labor movement clean
house in those areas where it
needs to clean house.”
But the cabinet officer also
called for a calm approach to
the problem.
"We should not rush head-
long, impelled by the hysteria
of the moment, to secure puni-
tive legislation aimed at under-
mining or weakening the gen-
eral body of labor.”
Mitchell urged elimination of
“specific abuses of power.”
In his statement after meet-
ing with Mitchell at the Augusta
National Golf club Eisenhower
said “corruption on the part of
the few should not obscure the
fact that the vast majority of
those connected with organized
labor are decent and honest
Americans and that responsible
labor leadership is moving
speedily toward protecting their
members from any such abuses,
as far as their means permit.”
resent time the age
ildren in the nursery
has been restricted to those
from 2% to 5. However, older
children can be taken
Today's Chuckle
Men understand women, all
right. It’s just less expensive to
pretend we don’t.
(Copyright General Features Corp.)
Sports ...............
Weather............
Women’s News
nursery if making good
ress and has an average
enrollment of 20 children.
county court after entering
pleas of guilt to drunken driv-
ing charges.
Receiving
: A brief shower shortly before
noon Wednesday added a scant
.01 of an inch of rainfall to the
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growing April total and provid-
ed Gainesville with its seventh
consecutive day of moisture.
Heavy clouds and fog marked
the local weather scene early
Two Fined for
Drunken Driving
Two persons paid $50 fines
and costs Wednesday in Cooke
Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy with widely
scattered thunderstorms tonight
and Friday.
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this upsurge of crime is the fact
that crimes have increased al-
most four times as fast as the
nation’s population since 1950.”
Hoover has been advocating
publicizing the names of youths
who commit heinous crimes.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (A) — Presi-
dent Eisenhower today called
labor racketeering "an abomina-
tion which must be eliminated.”
He said union leaders who abuse
power and trust “are not fit to
hold union offices.”
Eisenhower expressed t h o s.e
views in a statement after a 90
minute conference here with
Secretary of Labor Mitchell.
The president called for swift
enactment of legislation to pro-
vide for:
1. Registration, reporting and
public disclosure of full data on
union health and welfare funds.
The administration already has
a bill before congress to take
care of that.
2. Public disclosure of all oth-
er financial records of unions,
including such items as dues
collected, the salaries of union
officials, and the amount of
money in union treasuries.
In his statement the president
said the administration has fol-
lowed “with intense interest”
the efforts of a senate special
committee "to bring to light
disclosures of corrupt practices
and abuses by officers and mem-
bers of some labor unions.”
“Labor racketeering, like cor-
ruption anywhere, is an abomi-
nation which must be eliminat-
ed if and whenever it occurs.
- Any officer end employe of
labor—and it appears there have
been few—who abuse the power
and trust imposed upon them
are not fit to hold union of-
fices,” he said.
“The American working man
and woman deserve from labor
leadership high standards of
trust and fidelity.”
homa City and Louella Morgan
Young of Gainesville. Both were
arrested Tuesday near the city.
In addition to the fines, they
drew the compulsory three-day
jail terms and had their licenses
suspended for six months,
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FACE-LIFTING JOB—City workmen were hard at work when this photograph
was made early this morning. The men are currently busy giving the interior
of the community center building a “new look” in a spring cleaning venture that
started this week. Freshly painted walls and clean windows will soon greet visi-
on govel
spending.
Along that line, he said he
Hundreds in
13.3 per cent over
that nearly 46 per <
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WHERE BORDER CLOSED
—Shaded is border between
Jordan and Syria which Da-
mascus radio said was or-
dered closed by Jordanian
authorities. At Amman, cap-
itol of Jordan, mobs of
youths demonstrated against
the government of Premier
Hussein Khalidi.
(AP Wirephoto)
James C. Haggerty emphasized
that the statement’s references
to “independence and integrity”
and to U. S. interests and world
peace followed the wording used
by congress in the Eisenhower
resolution authorizing use of
American force against Commu-
nist or Communist controlled
aggression in the Middle East.
This raised a serious question
whether the Eisenhower admin-
istration is moving toward a
finding that Jordan is in trouble
because of Communist oppres-
sors and maneuvers and that
the United States might there-
fore intervene.
King Hussein only yesterday
attributed his country’s troubles
to "international ‘ communism
and its followers” but said he
thought he could handle the sit-
uation without outside help.
The administration was repre-
sented as wanting to put Egypt
ana Syria primarily, but also Is-
rael and Saudi Arabia, on notice
that it was opposed completely
to any move to carve up Jordan.
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Basic policy was laid down by
the vacation White House at
Augusta, Ga., last night after
President Eisenhower had con-
ferred by phone with Secretary
of State Dulles in Washington.
The core of that pronouncement
was that this country regards
“the independence and integrity
House Rayburn (D-Tex), have
been talking about a tax reduc-
tion bill this year to take effect
next Jan. 1. House Republican
Leader Martin (R-Mass) also
has been forecasting a tax cut
next year.
Knowland said no one is ask-
ing that a tax reduction take
effect earlier than next Jan-
uary, and added:
“No responsible member of
congress is suggesting that we
should reduce taxes in time of
deficit that would just up the
national debt.”
“Personally, I would apply
from two to three billion dol-
lars a year on reduction of the
national debt before any tax re-
duction is considered,” he said.
By waiting until next Jan-
uary or later, Knowland said,
congress will have five or six
more months to test estimates
window for Mr. and Mrs.
Chastain Nolan when, their
parakeet left.
Mrs. Nolan, 27 and the
mother of three, told Consta-
ble Thelma Hardison that her
husband taught the bird to
areas. The number of young
people in this age group in-
creased only about 3 per cent in
1956. Almost 46 per cent of ar-
rests for major crimes in urban
areas were of individuals under
18 years of age,” he said.
“In 1551 cities, police reported
28,035 arrests for auto thefts
last year. Of this number 18,622
of those arrested were under 18
years of age for a percentage of
66.4 per cent.”
The 1956 report said that on
an over-all basis, rural crime
rose 15.7 per cent, and there
was a 12.7 per cent increase in
cities. •
On a national basis, robbery
alone dropped off, with offenses
in this category down 13 per
cent for the year.
The report listed these in-
creases for other crimes: T^r-
ceny 16.7 per cent; aggravated
assault 4 per cent; murder and
non-negligent manslaughter 1.8
per cent; negligent manslaugh-
ter 0.7 per cent
“There was a major crime
committed every 123 seconds
during 1956,” the FBI said. “Ev-
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unless negotiations with users
say vulgar words at her.
She let the bird go and No-1 Today that statement was
lan retorted by storming out, backed up by an order to the
taking along most of his U. S. 6th fleet to sail from the
wife’s clothes, western to the eastern Mediter-
Nolan returned for a final ranean. That would put the fleet
stroke of revenge, she told in position for action.
the constable, yanking out The apparent aim was'to give
the telephone and removing young King Hussein a full op-
locks from the doors. portunity to save his country
.Mrs.. Nolan.swpre out B from political collapse with a
warrant and filed for divorce, minimum of outside interfer-
rnment income
nesday’s high was 69 d
and the low reading was
gency level, directors of the or- area,
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Delay in Tax Cuts
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON “ ---
this morning, but the sun
slipped through thinning clouds
for brief periods shortly before
noon. The temperature at 11
a.m. today had reached 69 de-
grees and the barometric pres
the fines
to a three-man
For the moment, there was no
indication here that Eisenhower
and Dulles had any desire to in-
tervene militarily on Jordan’s
behalf. The indication, diplo-
matic officials said, was rather
that they wanted to remind Mid-
dle Eastern countries of U. S.
interest, policy and ability to
act.
The fleet order sent the 60,000-
ton supercarrier Forrestal, two
cruisers and aaforce of destroy-
ers steaming toward Middle
Eastern waters so fast that 150
of the Forrestal’s crew, on leave
in Paris, were left behind.
Informants here said the of-
ficial explanation for the move
was that the fleet was needed
in those waters to remove
American nationals should that
become desirable.
Officials privately supported
the “show of force” explanation
and linked the whole operation
with the statement given out by
the White House last night.
White House press secretary
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to some change. Others felt
President Nasser had laid down
his final rules for operation of
Man Runs Amuck
Here, Arrested
On Assault Count
A Gainesville man who re
portedly ran amuck Wednesday
afternoon was charged this
morning in Cooke county court
with aggravated assault on his
wife.
Named on the count was C. D.
Reynolds Jr. of 820 East Gar-
nett street. He also was charged
in City court with a hit and run
traffic accident.
Police arrested Reynolds near
the Gainesville State Training
school after his car became
stuck in the road, which is torn
up for repairs. His two small
children and his mother were in
the car with him.
Reynolds reportedly assaulted
his wife and wrecked the inter-
ior of their home before leaving
in the car witf his mother and
children. He is accused of hit-
ting a parked automobile on
East Broadway and continuing
on toward the state school.
He was arrested about 4 p.m.
ery 4.1 minutes there was a
crime of murder, manslaughter,
rape or assault to kill.
“It was estimated that each
day during 1956, 34 people were
feloniously slain and 263 other
felonious assaults were commit-
ted: 55 rapes occurred; 4338
larcenies were committed; 721
cars were stolen; 155 robberies
were commtted, and 1436 burg-
laries were perpetrated.
"There was one major crime
committed for each 65 persons
in the general population of the
United States during 1956.
“There were 263,720 automo-
biles reported stolen during 1956
as compared with 227,150 dur-
ing 1955. This was an increase
of 36,570.
“Victims of killers totaled 12,-
620, while 116,730 instances of
rape or aggravated assault were
reported. Robberies totaled 56,-
770, while 525,720 burglaries
were reported.”
The report listed 1956 proper-
ty losses in robberies, burglaries
and thefts at 440 million dollars,
13.8 per cent greater than in
1955.
"It would be more prudent
and sound from a fiscal basis to
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wants to look further into Pen-
tagon reports that defense
agencies now are spending at a
rate of 38 billion dollars this
fiscal year, which ends June 30,
or some two billions higher
than had been estimated.
Pentagon officers said there
had been a speedup in produc-
tion of guided missiles and oth-
er new weapons.
On other subjects, Knowland
said he expects some form of
civil rights legislation during
this session, and there is “about
a 50-50 chance” of agreement on
a federal aid to education pro-
gram.
WASHINGTON (P) — Sen.
Knowland (R-Calif) said today
he doubts there will be any tax
reduction legislation at this ses-
sion, even if sharp cuts are
made in President Eisenhower’s
budget.
By JACK ADAMS
WASHINGTON (P) — The
FBI said today major U. S.
crimes last year increased by
The officers and directors
were in agreement that the
nursery is filling a vital role in
providing supervised day care
for children of working moth-
ers.
However, it now appears that
cheaper house rent, or a house
dorsted free of rent is neces-
sary until the nursery can be-
come self supporting.
Mrs. David O’Brien, secretary-
treasurer of the Day Nursery,
gave a complete financial re-
port during the session.
"Arrests of people
increased 173 per cent in urban
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wait until early next year be-
fore considering tax reduction,”
the Republican senate leader
Gainesbille Dailu Register
on-the-record comment on the
plan that provides complete
Egyptian control over operation
and toll money but calls for ar-
bitration of disputes.
Acting at the request of U. S.
delegate Henry Cabot Lodge,
the security council scheduled a
session for tomorrow on the
canal issue. Lodge said the coun-
cil should “take note of the sit-
uation regarding passage
through the Suez canal.”
A U. S. spokesman said Lodge
would report on recent Egyp-
tian-U. S. talks in Cairo and
that the council debate would
not close the door to future pri-
vate negotiations. He said the
United States does not plan a
resolution calling for any coun-
cil action, but that the request
for the meeting does not mean
the United States is in substan-
tial agreement with Egypt.
The Egyptian canal plan was
submitted to Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold by Egyptian
delegate Omar Loutfi for regis-
tration as an “international in-
strument.” Egyptian officials in-
sisted it would have the force of
an international treaty regis-
tered with the United Nations,
but the declaration provided no
penalties for anyone violating it
The declaration said Egypt
would: (1) maintain free and
uninterrupted navigation “with-
in the limits and in accordance
with the provisions” of the 1888
Constantinople convention; (2)
collect all tolls, paying the Egyp-
tian government 5 per cent in
royalties; (3) establish a fund
of 25 per cent of all tolls for
By The Associated Press
Hundreds were driven from
their homes by floods in Cen-
tral and South exas Thursday.
Several towns and numerous
roads were submerged.
At least six persons were
drowned.
Downpours of up to 6.50
inches of rain, tornadoes, and
violent weather raged over the
state for the seventh straight
day.
San Marcos, Georgetown, Bel-
ton, Killeen were the hardest
hit by floodwaters. At George-
town Sheriff Henry Matysek
said flood damage in William-
son county alone would run be-
tween two and three million
dollars.
A half dozen tornadoes struck
terror Wednesday, including a
twister that demolished several
houses and barns at Shilo near
Belton and Dawson in the Cor-
sicana area.
The heaviest rainfall was in
the Belton and Killeen area
where 6.5 inches fell.
College Station had 2.75
inches, San Antonio 1.91, Corsi-
cana 2.05, Waco 1.85, Texarkana
1.28, Dallas 1.23, Lufkin 1.17
and Austin 1.16.
In the Coy City area south
of San Antonio rains estimated
up to 3.50 inches accompanied
by a heavy hail wiped out crops.
Most of the flood stricken
areas reported streams reced-
ing Thursday. The Weather bu-
reau said at mid-morning that
except for West Texas, skies
were heavily cloudy but no new
rain was reported.
The continued downpours
have broken the drought in a
large part of Texas. Texas Ex-
tension service agents estimate
that only one fifth of the state,
mostly in West Texas, can still
be considered drought area.
In East, Central and South
Texas the prolonged rains have
washed out crops, carried away
top soil and delayed planting.
The rains, however, have been
welcomed by officials of many
cities as for the first time in
years lakes supplying municipal
water are brimming.
Nine major roads were tem-
porarily closed because of flood
waters, the Department of Pub-
lic safety said at 9:15 a.m.
These included Farm road
247 between Huntsville and Mid-
way. This road was under four
feet of water. The department
said it was not checking on
lightly traveled roads at the
present
Roads blocked included: U. S.
183, west of Austin and south
of Leander; state 29 between
Georgetown and Jonah; U. S.
290 nine miles east of Johnson
City; U. S. 77 south of Rock-
dale; state 71, east of Llano;
state 36 between Llano and
Caldwell; U. S. 287 between
Martial Law
Clamped on
For Jordan •
By TOM MASTERSON
AMMAN, Jordan (P) — The
future of Jordan hung in the
balance today.
A new government was named
and martial law was clamped on
the country.
King Hussein declared his in-
tention to fight out the crisis.
He blamed international commu-
nism for bringing it on.
The United States voiced sup-
port anew for the independence
and integrity of Jordan — and
ordered its 6th fleet back into
the eastern Mediterranean.
Today a total curfew was im-
posed on the capital city of Am-
man, the Old City of Jerusalem,
Nablus, Ramallah and Irbid
near the Syrian frontier.
Under the decree of martial
law police were put under con-
trol of the army, whose tough-
core Bedouin fighters are loyal
to King Hussein.
The country’s 10 political par-
ties were abolished.
Ibrahim Hashem, 83, was
chosen to head a seven-man cab-
inet of moderates.
The eight-day-old cabinet of
Hussein Khalidi resigned last
night after six hours of rioting
by mobs inspired by Com^-
nists and other extremist I-
tions.
King Hussein insisted in talks
with American reporters that he
did not need outride assistance.
Hussein stressed this again to-
day. He disclosed he would not
invite Rep. James P. Richards,
special representative of Presi-
dent Eisenhower, to Amman to
explain the President’s Middle
East program. Hussein said he
would decide “with other Arab
states” whether they would ac-
cept the Eisenhower program.
The American stand support-
ing Jordan's integrity, and call-
ing it vital to U. S. interests
and world peace, was a restate-
ment of the Eisenhower Doc-
trine. The White House reiter-
ated it last night, presumably
about the time orders were go-
ing out to. the U. S. 6th fleet to
leave Italian and French ports.
The aircraft carrier Forrestal
left Cannes, France.
Sighted
WASHINGTON (A) — Sen.
Bridges (R-NH) said today Rus-
sian submarines may be prowl-
ing off Florida coasts in an at-
tempt to watch U. S. missile
experiments.
“It is no secret that we are
experimenting with an ICBM—
Inter-Continental Ballistic Mis-
sile—at Patrick Air Force base,
Fla.,” Bridges said in a speech
prepared for American Legion
commissions on national securi-
ty and foreign relations.
Bridges, who is a senior mem-
ber of the senate armed serv-
ices and appropriations commit-
tees, said a recent report was
"that there were about a dozen
submarines lying off Cape Can-
averal, Fla.”
“They were not ours or our
allies,” Bridges said. “The story
was not substantiated, but we
do know that the Russians
spare no effort to learn what
we are doing.”
“If the submarines are in this
vicinity and if they are Russian
it may well be they are watch-
ing our progress on the first
ICBM,” he said.
“I am confident the navy is
pretty well alert to the subma-
rine menace,” he added. “One of
its top jobs is to keep track of
them and be ready to destroy
them if the occasion arises.”
Earlier this month, Adm. Jer-
auld Wright, commander in
chief of the U. S. Atlantic fleet,
said an increasing number of
unidentified submarines have
been contacted in the last three
years.
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state 7 between Crockett and
Centerville.
Gov. Price Daniel authorized
National Guard troops for emer-
gency duty if they’re needed to
aid flood - stricken Belton and
Killeen, where hundreds left
their homes late Wednesday
night.
Several hundred persons in
South San Marcos were evac-
uated Wednesday night when
the Blanco river rose threaten-
ingly.
The Blanco, backing up wat-
ers of the San Marcos river,
hit a flood crest of 27 feet early
Thursday and the rivers began
receding. Miles of lowlands in
the San Marcos area remained
flooded, however. Water swirled
eight and nine feet deep
through 10 dty blocks in San
Marcos, if the river had risen
another foot, flood waters
would have inundated some 30
city blocks in the residential
arrests in such cases in urban
areas were of juveniles under
18.
The statistics were made pub-
lic in the annual edition of the
bureau’s crime reports, based
on police data.
They showed an estimated ma-
jor crime totafor last year of
2,663,150. Thi was up 300,700
from 1955 and marked the first
time that crimes in this cate-
gory passed the 2%-million
mark in a single 12-month pe-
riod.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
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